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#187113 - 10/05/09 12:59 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: BranShea]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Ha! laugh this exuberant smiley is for you!
So far it looks like it was a Roman object. So who would it belong to after all those ages? The 'honest' finder?


They said it looked to by Hyksos> the people also known as
the Shepherd Kings, who were a dynasty in Egypt for a long
time, finally driven out by Ahmose (about 1100 BCE, I believe,
without checking out the history.)

My guess was that it belonged to the state of Israel. A museum
authority concurred.


Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/05/09 01:03 PM)
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#187114 - 10/05/09 01:00 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: BranShea]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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Originally Posted By: BranShea
Is this what you are talking about?
LINK
Did you take at least a picture? Well, you're good. If I would have found a heap of then I would have turned them over to the authorities. If just one, I'm sure I would have smuggled it home.


Yes, I took a picture and would post if I knew how. As you remember I cannot get my pictures on this site.But it was like the ones you put in the Link: smallish, like a ring stone, and white in color.


Edited by LukeJavan8 (10/05/09 01:02 PM)
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#187119 - 10/05/09 05:32 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: LukeJavan8]
BranShea Offline
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ring stone 
–noun a voussoir appearing on a face of an arch.
voussoir???? Eh?

What's a ring stone?

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#187138 - 10/06/09 01:23 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: BranShea]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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Sorry, perhaps not good term: Stone found in a ring. Like that
used by nobles, bishops, and the like: The stone would be
pressed into warm wax to make a sealing on some document, letter,
etc.

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#187139 - 10/06/09 01:24 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: LukeJavan8]
LukeJavan8 Offline
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The stone itself was shaped roughly like a scarab: and the
reverse side had some symbols, ancient writing of some sort, I
presume.

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#187142 - 10/06/09 02:51 PM Re: cuneiform lawsuit [Re: LukeJavan8]
BranShea Offline
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Something like this then, I guess.

Hebrew bullae

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